Infoscraps: Enforcing Information Security by Mechanism

Several information security problems currently require the vigilance of the defender to prevent exploitation or misclassification of information, specifically code injection vulnerabilities and enforcement of Security Classification Guides. This paper discusses a potential solution that can enforce some of these rules by computer mechanism, reducing the potential for security problems. The solution is to replace using simple text strings with data structures containing both a string and a key-value data store. This metadata allows the computer to apply automated rules to enforce data sanitization and classification.